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  I'm going to take a stab and say he's talking about Father Comstock. : snubble100
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    He's talking about one of their "heavy hitters" - the Mecha-Mohammad IIRC. : Stimpak Chopra
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      Surely the heaviest hitter is the JackHammer-Jew? : Beady
      • I think the Bodhisattva-Bruiser has them both beat. : DeBurgo
• weak : RogerDandy
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  Well this story would have been a bit more interesting if I knew what the problem the religious people ha... : Nehvrook
  • ^.This. : wrecker77
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    Seriously. This screams viral marketing--look at how controversial and edgy we are! : PenicillinX57
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      THIS IS NOT VIRAL MARKETING THAT TERM MIGHT BE DUMB BUT PLEASE DO NOT MAKE IT DUMERERRER : dahanese
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        ^^^^ First rule of viral marketing : watcherxp
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          i will punch your stupid face >:( : dahanese
          • The best viral marketing also has a physical element too! : Beady
          • I gotta say you are very good at viral marketing! : Kub666
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        Says the person who made pancake in a box go viral. : Haxim
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          it's true. we had an entire whiteboard wall devoted to that endeavor. about 1/3 of it was dedicated to ye... : dahanese
          • "I bought the dog and, the dog won." : Marrbe
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            lol @ you thinking you have cred on here... : cltcprd
            • in this subthread it is revealed that you were a means to an end and that end was reddit. : dahanese
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        Oh no, people getting terminology mixed up in a field you work in, this is no different than people calli... : ovrlrd
        • you so sassy! : dahanese
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          you want backlash? try telling an entomologist that there's no such thing as bugs, just insects : Megara9
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            or go to a firing range and call everything a 'clip' : smax
            • make sure your clip is loaded with bullets! : zerog83
      • WE WILL USE THE TERM HOWEVER WE PLEASE : the city
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    That would have required journalism : rodneystubbs
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      On Shacknews? Don't be ridiculous. : Wisp!
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        He did not specify what offended them in the interview, so don't blame Shack for it... : vai90
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          Journalism often involves picking up the phone and asking questions yourself. : Wisp!
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            You sure seem to dislike Shacknews. : TylerJSmith
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              We just dislike "lol games journalism." Take some pride in your work instead of copy-pasting. : rodneystubbs
              • But you do like it here Why bite the hand that feeds you? : doomed
              • Admittedly the full article is in a magazine, which must be bought for the full story without making assu... : Draingored
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                I'm just talking about Wisp! He has a ton of negative comments like this. http://www.shacknews.com/cha... : TylerJSmith
                • don't worry, wisp is just a prematurely cranky old fuck that doesn't like anything, once you get past tha... : Juno
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                  Ok, well that comment on The Verge article was bitchy. One of them was about the community and had nothin... : Wisp!
                  • Don't mind me. I'm cranky today :( : TylerJSmith
            • I like Alice's work, but Shacknews has gone steadily downhill since Evening Remo ended. After Breckon lef... : Wisp!
      • I wish you guys would just leave the article threads alone. We get it, you hate the articles and are just... : Grape Flavor
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      A few things. First, Ken Levine won't reveal the specific story element he reworked because he doesn't w... : David Craddock
      • Answer to your third point: absolutely yes. The article is nothing other than a copy paste of another pub... : rodneystubbs
  • "religious people changed your video game. Get angry" : avatar_58
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    If you choose Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior at the beginning, when you die you respawn in heaven... : someWayne
    • http://playthisthing.com/ze-franks-life-games : Fayk
  • Given that it was a person on his staff, mentioning anything more may have been considered a breech of co... : Masem
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  I really wish/hope this game had some sort of commentary track. There must be so many interesting decisio... : Firefly1985
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    Do you know who developed it? A commentary track for this game would run 10 times longer than the actual... : spazzium
    • if it's anything like bioshock's pre-release videos it will lie about feature and act like the game is ge... : avatar_58
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  Ugh. Anyone else tired of hearing about all the controversies revolving this game? Just release the damn ... : EricZBA
  • Yeah; I'm in full-on media blackout on this title, just waiting for reviews to be released. : the archvile
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    I'm at a point where I believe that they're purposefully making controversy as a means of getting free at... : Malku
    • Which speaks to 2K's marketing spend, apparently. : the archvile
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      Viral marketing, see above. : Haxim
      • Lol didn't read that :/. : Malku
    • If the purposeful controversies make one think about real-world things that may be part of the intent as ... : Draingored
• This news story needs more Irrational Interviews. I hope they pick that back up after they're done crunch... : BlackCat9
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  Caving from pressure within is only marginally better than caving from external pressure. You still caved... : AxeMan808
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    "Something cleaves too close to my own beliefs. Should I take a look at my own life within that context?... : Earl Greigh
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      First you guys complain that Casey Hudson wrote the ending to ME3 without getting outside perspective tha... : BlackCat9
      • Nope. I complained about 800$ worth of exclusive pre-order DLC purchases. : AxeMan808
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    I doubt that Levine 'caved' at all, given how he handled similar situations in Bioshock 1. 'I'm not go : NickDelios
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      I've noticed that media can often treat religious issues in a very superficial and stupid way which often... : lordmedikit
      • well said. : deathofrats
• Will this have TF2 hats? That's all I care about. : Barleywine
• Oh good, I was afraid we were going to make it more than a day without some gaming controversy from happe... : ovrlrd
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  This does not bode well. : Kub666
  • "The last thing I wanted to do was change something because it offends somebody, but the thing they point : pyide
• Nuance. Something often lost in the way articles are read on the internet. : Draingored
• Vague Ken Levine is vague. : greenbergMD
• Please, keep being interested in our game!11!%? : shirif
• Sounds fine to me. Was kind of afraid that the religious bits would be nothing more than a Sinclair Lewis... : steauengeglase
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  I'm wondering if this is related to the departure of a those Irrational employees a few months back. Was ... : Cikatriz
  • I hate you all. : Cikatriz
• Okay. This article tells us a whole lot of nothing, really. "I changed something in a game after consid... : Jobos
• Looking to get this game for free, Download from -> Mygame9.com || Looking to get this game for free, Dow... : 99bestgame